U.S. Coast Guard officials say workers using cranes and pumps plan to begin lifting the ferry listing near the shore at Newburgh today. The work could take a day or more.

The ferry, named for former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, was decommissioned in 2007 after 42 years of service. It apparently sprung a leak early in March while docked in Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York City.

The fate of the ferry was unclear. A man who answered the phone call to Mothership Hotel LLC in New York City, which the Coast Guard lists as the owner, would not comment.